Word: gaza
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...neighbors and its U.S. ally for generations to come. The accelerated building program runs directly counter to the Reagan Administration's efforts to launch talks aiming toward a broad Middle East peace settlement. Last September, President Reagan offered a peace plan under which the West Bank and the Gaza Strip would become associated with Jordan. He called on Israel to halt its expansion of settlements in the occupied territories, hoping that such a step would bring Jordan to the bargaining table. Prime Minister Menachem Begin angrily rejected the Reagan plan, saying that the West Bank, which he refers...
...position. The Reagan Administration fears that wide-ranging discussions would merely prolong the crisis in Lebanon and would prevent the U.S. from making any headway on President Reagan's Sept. 1 peace plan, which calls for a future association between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...Jordan. The agreement, hammered out in committee meetings chaired by Arafat and Jordanian Prime Minister Mudar Badran, pledges "joint political moves at all levels" and calls for "a special and distinctive relationship" between Jordan and a "liberated Palestine" to be created out of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza...
Arafat's most outspoken opponent is Syrian President Hafez Assad. Arafat is determined to preserve the P.L.O.'s independence, while Assad is seeking to dominate the organization. Assad's great fear is that the Palestinians will reach an agreement with Israel over the West Bank and Gaza, leaving the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war and has since annexed, in Israeli hands. In an effort to strengthen the P.L.O.'s hard-line factions, Assad has encouraged criticism of Arafat's diplomatic maneuvers and placed frustrating restrictions on P.L.O. fighters within...
...three days with King Hussein last week, examining the opportunities created by President Reagan's peace plan, which calls for an eventual confederation between Jordan and a Palestinian entity on the West Bank. He and Hussein talked about the forms that future negotiations over the West Bank and Gaza Strip might take. One problem they considered is how to get around Washington's refusal to deal directly with the P.L.O. Accordingly, they discussed the idea that the P.L.O. might authorize non-P.L.O. Palestinians to negotiate in the organization's behalf. They also formed what they called...